Photos and description of the "Inter-City or Sixth Street Viaduct" connecting the cities of Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas across the West Bottoms, depicting the entrance at both ends (the...

"The City of Kansas, now Kansas City, Missouri, was incorporated by a special act of the Legislature February 22, 1853. The boundary lines at that time extended from the middle of the Missouri river south...

The scrapbook contains 72 various-sized, second-generation black and white prints of early Kansas City riverfront views. Included are scenes of the grading of the bluffs for streets, early commercial and...